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Brazilian sports marketing agency Go4it invested in Keemotion, an HD video content and production system that integrates social media. It is the third investment in less than a month by Go4it, which acquired stakes in TAPPP and Greenfly in late November. Keemotion's product is the world's first fu...

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With the goal of running 2,500 drug tests this year to "guarantee a clean competition" at the 2016 Olympics, the Brazilian Authority of Doping Control (ABCD) disclosed a list of 200 athletes, called the Grupo Alvo (Target Group), that it will monitor, according to GLOBO ESPORTE. ABCD said that it "d ...

The friendly between the Brazilian and Mexican national teams on Sunday "generated the largest revenue this season" in Brazil and totaled R$6.7M ($2.2M) from ticket sales alone, according to Thiago Ferri of LANCENET. Until Sunday, the Campeonato Paulista match between Brasileiro sides Palmeiras and ...

The grass at Brasília's Mané Garrincha stadium, which has been "abandoned for the last five months," is being "criticized by those who deal directly with it: football players and coaches," according to Marcos Paulo Lima of CORREIRO BRAZILIENSE. The "first to bash the field" was Brasile ...

April salaries referring to total days worked by Brasileiro side Comercial players "still have not been completely settled," according to Vinicius Brino of GLOBO ESPORTE. The club was "supposed to arrange payments" before May 8, or by the fifth business day of the month. However, Lacerda Sports, whi ...

The presidents of the 20 Brasileiro Série A sides will meet at the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) on Monday to "discuss the organization of championships that run the risk of leaving the hands of the CBF," according to Raphael Ramos of ESTADÃO. Club presidents' intentions for the ...

Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) President Marco Polo Del Nero has called a CBF general assembly on Thursday with federation representatives, with the topic of discussion being "re-election for CBF presidency," according to Leite, Junior, Dolzan & Lincoln of ESTADÃO. Del Nero ...

The 2014 World Cup contracts between FIFA, commercial partners and sponsors "will be investigated" by the U.S. Department of Justice with focus on FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke and former Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) President Ricardo Teixeira, according to Jamil Chad ...

The Brazilian government "is paying" $250,000 to the Globo network for the exclusive transmission rights for all FIFA tournaments in '15, according to Vinícius Segalla of UOL. The purchase of these transmission rights is for the government's network, TV Brasil, which belongs to the ...

More than 25,000 people from São Paulo have applied to be volunteers at the first edition of the Olympic Games to be staged in South America. On Wednesday, the Rio 2016 volunteer selection and training center opened for business in São Paulo. Rio 2016 Head of Volunteers Flavia Fontes s ...

A small private bank controlled by a "reclusive" Brazilian billionaire "shows up more than two dozen times in U.S. prosecutors’ corruption charges" against FIFA, according to Hamilton, Katz & Brush of BLOOMBERG. It is "hardly the bank’s first brush with scandal."
Delta National Bank ...